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Obama and Iran: Strange Bedfellows

Obama and Iran: Strange Bedfellows

We should be thankful the Obama administration is nearing its end. This year is bound to have its share of surprises and grandstanding from a president who seems more enamored by regimes like Iran than America. The administration relentlessly insists the Iranian regime can be trusted to keep its word and honor treaties, even after the recent hostage-taking of U.S. Navy sailors who weren’t released until we apologized.

In short order, the Obama administration did its best to communicate the swift return of the sailors was due to their diplomatic outreach to Tehran. The release was about as connected to diplomacy as a homemade video was connected to Benghazi.

As the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words — and what a picture was painted when a humiliating video surfaced showing the boat’s captain apologizing to Iran. NCIS’s Leroy Gibbs would be appalled, given his rule #6: “Never apologize — it’s a sign of weakness.” Despicable videos followed of sailors on their own boat, apparently kneeling in submission at gunpoint, displaying the picture of weakness this administration exhibits and America’s enemies exploit at every opportunity.

And elsewhere in some alternate universe to which the Obama administration dwells, Secretary of State Kerry thanked Iran for its “diplomacy” in their handling of the matter.

As I write, news breaks about the release of four additional hostages from Iran, which at first blush seems to contradict my opinion about the administration’s new BFF, but as I read further, the hostages came with a hefty price tag. In addition to the pending $150 billion from Obama’s nuclear deal, apparently seven Iranians were released from U.S. custody, and charges were dropped for an additional 14. With details still unclear, and given the Bergdahl debacle, one can’t help but be suspicious of any deals this administration cuts.

Surely, we would’ve had those hostages back straightaway, if, like Ronald Reagan, America stood up to evil regimes rather than constantly capitulating. Admittedly, words sometimes work, as Reagan’s presidency taught. History shows us Reagan’s tact also allowed him to tell the enemy to go to hell in such a genteel way, our enemies appeared to gladly anticipate the trip. “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression,” Reagan said.

Of course, sometimes a good punch in the face communicates much better than words.

What business does the Obama administration have doing deals with Iran anyhow? Throughout the whole nuclear deal negotiation process, it’s been documented that Iranian leadership continued to chant “Death to America” and say the U.S. remains “the great Satan and their “number-one enemy.” Were I in charge, I would take that personally. As Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said, “When someone chants… death to America, we should take him at his word, and we shouldn’t put him on the path to a nuclear bomb.”

As retired U.S. Army lieutenant general Michael Barbero wrote in an article for the Weekly Standard last August, the Obama administration’s nuclear deal also lifts sanctions on the man responsible “for sowing sectarian conflict in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Suleimani is also responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands of American soldiers fighting in Iraq — yet we’re about to pour in his pockets “a large infusion of cash to wreak more havoc and terror,” Mr. Barbero wrote.

One can’t help but wonder what sort of terror might be visited upon the planet once the sanctions are removed and the billions begin to flow. After all, there is a reason why, up until this administration, America didn’t negotiate with terrorists.

Really they are NOT such strange bedfellows.!!!
Birds of a feather, DO flock together,,,and so do featherbedding people of Self-Interest and SELF-destruction of the very people and nations they attempt to lead.

it is not strange at all. the media simply chooses to ignore obama’s passage in one of his books about standing with the moslims when the time is right. there is nothing difficult to understand about those words unless you flat *** stupid.

I find it amusing, disgusting, shameful, dishonest to the highest possible degree, and a travesty, that we have a man who hates our Country, People, and Constitution, sitting in our Presidents chair.
I am firmly convinced he will not just walk away from the cushy, Dictatorship in waiting, Million dollar vacation and family outing, Muslim insider position he occupies. I fear either by Executive order, implementation of Martial Law, or another opportunity, he will remain the President, and the elections will be either re-designed so that he can run another term, or otherwise stay off the elections by one of the above means. Strange Bedfellows, indeed, with all our enemies, and against all who are, and have been, our allies.

I so deeply hope that I am wrong about this but I am afraid, for the whole of the Country we once loved, respected, and fought so hard to retain freedom in, that I am right. Biblically, it seems to align perfectly with the beginning of sorrow, and the end times as Prophesied thousands of years ago.
It is not only, his seeming Dictator status, but one only has to look to the skies, the earth, and the weather, to see Prophecy being fulfilled almost daily.
I can only Pray God’s will be done, he IS in control, regardless of how we feel, or like, what is happening in this Country, and around the World.

*The sailors, by their admission, violated Iranian waters on armed vessels. Iran would have been “justified” firing on them. Thankfully it was resolved peacefully. The apology appears voluntary by an officer that realizes their intrusion is, if unintentional, an act of war. Iran and the US State dept deserve credit.

*US and Israeli intelligence and the IAEA agree that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. The deal adds layers of verification- far beyond the “Additional Protocols” Bush advocated.

*The US General in charge of the Iraqi theater at the time, Peter Pace, admitted there is no evidence that Iran armed insurgents in Iraq. IEDs are easy to make and were likely produced by Baathists that were, prior to invasion, part of Saddam’s army. Veterans group VoteVets – as opposed to politicians and war profiters – claim the Iranian govt did not supply munitions.

*Carter negotiated the Algiers Accords freeing the hostages. Reagan gave arms to Iran to free hostages taken during his Presidency (and support the brutal Contras). Reagan is believed by federal investigators to have influenced Iran into holding the original hostages until after the election to help his candidacy. Reagan pulled troops out of Lebanon after the Marine barracks there were attacked.